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Nvidia launches Grace CPU for data centers, built on the ARM architecture

Nvidia held their annual spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC), virtually once again on 12th April this year due to the pandemic raging across the world. The company unveiled its first ever Arm-based CPU, called Grace in honor of the famous American programmer Grace Hopper. The announcement of the new Arm CPU follows Nvidia’s 2019 declaration of intent to fully embrace Arm and its September 2020 bid to acquire Arm for $40 billion. We’ve barely heard a peep out of Nvidia on the CPU front for years, after the lackluster arrival of its Project Denver CPU and its associated Tegra K1…

iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max will be using LTPO screens from LG, and Samsung

High refresh-rate displays have become a norm in high-end Android smartphones. Devices like Samsung Galaxy S20, OnePlus 8 Pro, Xiaomi Mi 10, Oppo Find X3, and Vivo X60 have a 120Hz refresh rate or higher. However, Apple is yet to implement this technology in its iPhones. The latest smartphones from Apple, the iPhone 12 series, still uses the outdated 60Hz refresh rate. The iPhone 12 series was expected to feature a 120Hz display but Apple didn’t move forward with it due to battery life concerns. Now, a new report claims that Apple has decided to use high refresh-rate display panels…

Intel’s high-end Xe-HPG DG2 gaming graphics pictured, rumored specs detailed too

The first pictures of Intel’s high-end Xe-HPG DG2 GPU-based discrete gaming graphics cards and specifications have been leaked by Moore’s Law is Dead. The leaker has not only posted the first pictures of the engineering board but also detailed the specifications and expected performance numbers of the flagship part. Intel’s Xe-HPG DG2 High-End Gaming Graphics Card Pictured – 512 EUs, 275W TDP on TSMC 6nm Node, Performance Up To NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 The Xe HPG DG2 GPUs based on the Gen 12 graphics architecture is a brand new design hence it is expected of them to feature brand new shading…

SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit and even lands back perfectly

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday afternoon (April 7) and nailed a landing at sea to top off a successful mission. The veteran Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 here at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:34 p.m. EDT (1634 GMT), marking the company’s 10th launch of the year. “Falcon 9 has successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying our stack of Starlink satellites to orbit,” Jessie Anderson, a SpaceX manufacturing engineer, said during a live webcast of…